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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIntroducing the new Toyota Sedition models at the Toyotathon!
Including the Seditious Sienna!
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Introducing the new Toyota Sedition models at the Toyotathon! (Original Post)
FelineOverlord
Jun 2021
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BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)1. I think Rachel Madsow covered this on her show tonight.
I was going to write a nasty letter to Toyota but it looks like many beat me to it, and better than I could have done.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)2. k&r
Blue Owl
(50,519 posts)3. The Limited Sad!tion Edition
Comes with a tRumper to tRumper warranty*
(*valid only during FF45s second term)
sprinkleeninow
(20,267 posts)5. The 4F's guy.
PSPS
(13,618 posts)4. US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks
US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks
Scores of Toyota pickups seen in terror videos to dismay of Iraqi officials.
By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and ALEX HOSENBALL
October 6, 2015, 9:43 AM
-- U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the worlds second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror groups propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned. Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is supporting the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department -- part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group.
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Toyota Hilux pickups, an overseas model similar to the Toyota Tacoma, and Toyota Land Cruisers have become fixtures in videos of the ISIS campaign in Iraq, Syria and Libya, with their truck beds loaded with heavy weapons and cabs jammed with terrorists. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, told ABC News that in addition to re-purposing older trucks, his government believes ISIS has acquired hundreds of brand new Toyotas in recent years.
This is a question weve been asking our neighbors, Faily said. How could these brand new trucks... these four wheel drives, hundreds of them -- where are they coming from? ISIS propaganda videos show gunmen patrolling Syrian streets in what appear to be older and newer model white Hilux pick-ups bearing the black caliphate seal and crossing Libya in long caravans of gleaming tan Toyota Land Cruisers. When ISIS soldiers paraded through the center of Raqqa, more than two-thirds of the vehicles were the familiar white Toyotas with the black emblems. There were small numbers of other brands including Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu.
Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand, said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who is CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit working to expose the financial support networks of terror groups. ISIS has used these vehicles in order to engage in military-type activities, terror activities, and the like, Wallace told ABC News. But in nearly every ISIS video, they show a fleet -- a convoy of Toyota vehicles and thats very concerning to us.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota-trucks/story?id=34266539
Scores of Toyota pickups seen in terror videos to dismay of Iraqi officials.
By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and ALEX HOSENBALL
October 6, 2015, 9:43 AM
-- U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the worlds second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror groups propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned. Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is supporting the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department -- part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group.
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Toyota Hilux pickups, an overseas model similar to the Toyota Tacoma, and Toyota Land Cruisers have become fixtures in videos of the ISIS campaign in Iraq, Syria and Libya, with their truck beds loaded with heavy weapons and cabs jammed with terrorists. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, told ABC News that in addition to re-purposing older trucks, his government believes ISIS has acquired hundreds of brand new Toyotas in recent years.
This is a question weve been asking our neighbors, Faily said. How could these brand new trucks... these four wheel drives, hundreds of them -- where are they coming from? ISIS propaganda videos show gunmen patrolling Syrian streets in what appear to be older and newer model white Hilux pick-ups bearing the black caliphate seal and crossing Libya in long caravans of gleaming tan Toyota Land Cruisers. When ISIS soldiers paraded through the center of Raqqa, more than two-thirds of the vehicles were the familiar white Toyotas with the black emblems. There were small numbers of other brands including Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu.
Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand, said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who is CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit working to expose the financial support networks of terror groups. ISIS has used these vehicles in order to engage in military-type activities, terror activities, and the like, Wallace told ABC News. But in nearly every ISIS video, they show a fleet -- a convoy of Toyota vehicles and thats very concerning to us.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota-trucks/story?id=34266539
Captain Zero
(6,827 posts)6. That's a butt ugly truck no matter what it's called
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